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Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most compelling problems are not solved then, they only begin. He strives for power or for love, or for destruction, he risks his life for religious, for political, for humanistic ideals, and these strivings are what constitutes and characterizes the peculiarity of human life.
Erich Fromm, Man For Himself (Ne
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Orson Welles
The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed.
Margaret Mead
Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.
Chungliang Al Huang
For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do -- they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.
John Updike
Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
Andre Gide, Journal
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race
Bertrand Russell
Men become old, but they never become good
Oscar Wilde
... a total being who can do many different things - think, fight, remember, love, anticipate, copulate, sing, laugh, imagine. All the activities can be used for good ends, all can be abused and turned to evil ends.
Robert McAfee Brown
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the
Albert Einstein
It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.
William Faulkner, Nobel Prize Sp
My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. Listing what body parts he has broken
Jackie Chan
Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
Woody Allen
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
Mark Twain, What Is Man?
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Samuel Johnson
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas Carlyle
When it is darkest, men see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.
Eugene Delacroix
The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts
Aristotle
